Category: Allgemein

MILE – Networking of Stakeholders for the Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market in Tyrol

Representatives of the regional government of Tyrol, the regional refugee agency, the City of Innsbruck as well as associations and initiatives working on the integration of migrants accepted the invitation of die Berater® to a first networking meeting which was held online due to the pandemic. After taking over the role of the Austrian project partner in the transnational AMIF project MILE, the project team of die Berater® informed the Tyrolean integration stakeholders about the status of the project and the labour market trainings that started on 1 February. A second MILE course starts on 1 March.

The stakeholders responded very positively to the project and pledged their support in promoting the measures. In the coming months, a total of 130 migrants and people with a refugee background will take part in competence assessments, soft skills training and training in digital competence, receive support in their job search through application coaching and gain experience in the Tyrolean labour market through internships.

Further information on the project can be found in the projectfolder and on the project website.

The “Alternative Safety Nets” Project keeps moving forward!

The ALTER website has been launched in all partner languages. The Nationals & the Transnational Reports are available online

Our innovative 2-year Erasmus+ project “Alternative Safety Nets – ALTER” keeps evolving as our team members from our highly qualified partners in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain continue finding creative ways of working together, despite the various difficulties and challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE & FACEBOOK PAGE

The ALTER website is already “on air” at https://alterproject.eu and is available in all partner languages. Its content includes the following:
• About: Learn more about the project, its objectives, main target groups, activities and outputs
• Partners: Meet our team that consists of Beşiktaş District Directorate of National Education (Turkey/coordinator), die Berater (Austria), Symplexis (Greece), Know and Can Association (Bulgaria), Magenta Consultoría Projects S.L.U (Spain), EU Activities Centre/EUAC (Turkey).
• Reports: Explore the nationals and transnational reports carried out by all partners
• News & events: Stay up-to-date with our project’s latest news and join us in future events
• Contact form

In addition, the ALTER Facebook page is also available at https://www.facebook.com/alter.project, offering related news and updates about the project.

For detailed information read our ALTER’s Press Release.

e-VIVA project news

Philosophy, Digital Marketing or Mechanical Engineering – in the e-VIVA project, universities in the West Balkans are testing new approaches to knowledge transfer in various courses of study. The focus is on methods of creative thinking and innovation and the validation of personal competencies.

From May to October, all partner institutions organised staff, students and SME’s trainings to share the information on the e-VIVA project activities and inspire their academic communities to use the competence validation tools and practices at their daily teaching and learning activities.
The partner institutions also took the opportunity to organise several events to promote the project.

Read more about all activities in the 4^th Newsletter!

Has the EU banned kebabs? Does the EU want to boycott national products? Is there really a European tax on air conditioning?

It seems clear the answer to all these questions is no. They are all parts of myths and fake news circulating on Twitter, Facebook and many other online newspapers across Europe. In recent years, we have been spending more and more time on the web. We use it to work, to communicate, to have fun but, above all, to inform ourselves. It is not always easy to identify the true news from the false ones.

This fact, together with the growing of anti-European movements are more and more frequent to read fake news about Europe and its institutions.

As European Union constantly faces different manifestations of Europhobia, unmasking EU myths becomes more and more important to keep the EU united. Facts checking help not only to unmask the EU myths but as well to better understand the EU processes.

Based on these points, the MEGA project aims at enhancing critical thinking and media literacy of young people by analysing and unmasking Europhobic myths.

In order to achieve this goal, six organisations from Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Cyprus, and Lithuania working with young people from all over Europe, have been cooperating, developing these tools:

• EU myths and success stories
  A report on widespread Europhobic myths and success stories of the EU.

• EU learning games
  Online gamification environment presenting the beliefs and myths on the EU

• Guide
  promoting and explaining methods and tools aimed to implement educational activities for young people.

EU myths and success stories

EU myth or Euromyth usually refers to invented stories or distorted facts about the European Union (EU) and the activities of its institutions. The EU is accused of nonsensical EU legislation, bureaucracy and all difficulties and challenges arising from global trends.

A research conducted in each partner country through social media produced a compilation of 145 EY myths along with the explanations with facts and useful links where correct information can be found and 60 success stories along with shortcomings of the EU. Myths are grouped into topics such as legislation, policy, religion, culture, migration, finances, functioning of the EU, health care, democracy, Brexit, and then into countries. Success stories of the EU are grouped into general achievements and country-specific stories.

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MILE – Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market in Times of Corona

die Berater® has taken over the role of the Austrian project partner in the transnational AMIF project MILE. The main project activities are being carried out in the Innsbruck branch of die Berater®.

We contact employers to provide voluntary internships to learn about the labour market, organise matching with job-seeking migrants, conduct competence assessments and soft skills development activities, provide technical training and support migrants when entering the labour market. To achieve sustainable impact, we network and work closely with integration and labour market actors in the project.

All this is now to be made ready for take-off in a short time, the first courses are to start in February…. No easy task for the project team in Innsbruck in view of the lockdown and contact restrictions. But the first participants have already been recruited and networking activities are in full swing.

Further information on the project can be found in the projectfolder and on the project website.

Cooking Through the Pandemic

Despite a global pandemic we are focusing on our transnational project developing various innovative material to be used by trainers throughout Europe to engage with teaching languages through Cooking and intercultural dialogue.

Training Guidelines on how to deliver the Course

We are currently working on two manuals that will give trainers useful tips and strategies on how to deliver our LLCC language course. Manual 1 is a guide to the delivery including adapting to online teaching, Manual 2 is a supporting manual for supplementary help and guidance.

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